Personalise gift cards

Card personalisation technologies

We use 3 different technologies for personalising gift cards: 

1. Thermal printing: this is most frequent way of personalising cards. Thermal printing consists of heating a print head and burning the text into the card’s top coating. This technology allows us to add unique numbers, barcodes, images and other variable data. Thermal printing provides a highly scratch-resistant finish. 

1. High speed inkjet: this new technology allows us to personalise 25,000 high-quality cards an hour! We also offer personalisation though choice of raw materials (paper, pvc, polystyrene or environmentally friendly) and a range of formats. Ideal for saving costs for large quantities 

1. Embossing: last but not least, our final personalisation technology is known as embossing. Here, the card is punched from the back to create raised numbers and/or letters at the front. Something familiar from credit cards and hospital passes. Embossing always makes use of a fixed font but can be executed with different types of  tipping  (the colours of the raised letters).  

Personalised mailings and packaging 

As well as personalising the cards themselves, we can also help you with a personalised direct mail or gift card packaging. We often make use of associated direct mail when you send cards to recipients by post. And of course, this should also include gift card packaging in your corporate identity to give added value to the gift card. 

Online gift card tool 

It’s easy for your customers to design a personalised gift card using our online gift card tool. This allows them to upload their own images with a personal message. They can also determine the card’s value themselves. We take care of fulfilment: printing and sending the cards and registering this in our order system which then generates and sends the consumer an email confirmation. 

 Football gift cards are a good example of this. Consumers can choose between 24 full-colour images of a favourite football club and a five-line message. We then send this personal gift card to the customer.